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Monday, December 9, 2013

Revealed: spy agencies' covert push to infiltrate virtual world of online games

Revealed: spy agencies' covert push to infiltrate virtual world of online games | World news | theguardian.com: "To the National Security Agency analyst writing a briefing to his superiors, the situation was clear: their current surveillance efforts were lacking something. The agency's impressive arsenal of cable taps and sophisticated hacking attacks was not enough. What it really needed was a horde of undercover Orcs.

World of Warcraft

That vision of spycraft sparked a concerted drive by the NSA and its UK sister agency GCHQ to infiltrate the massive communities playing online games, according to secret documents disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden."

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